Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? by Michael Eric DysonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 286 kbOverview: Michael Eric Dyson took America by storm with this provocative expose of the class and generational divide that is tearing black America apart. Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more […]
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic by Michael Eric Dyson, Sohail DaulatzaiRequirements: .PDF reader, 17 MbOverview: At the age of nineteen, Nasir “Nas” Jones began recording tracks for his debut album—and changed the music world forever. Released in 1994, Illmatic was hailed as an instant masterpiece and has proven one of the most influential […]
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric DysonRequirements: .MP3 reader, 224 MBOverview: In 2015, BLM activist Julius Jones confronted presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with an urgent query: "What in your heart has changed that’s going to change the direction of this country?" […]
The Michael Eric Dyson Reader by Michael Eric DysonRequirements: .PDF reader, 23 MbOverview: Over the past ten years, the work of Michael Eric Dyson has become the first stop for readers, writers, and thinkers eager for uncommon wisdom on the racial and political dynamics of contemporary America. Whether writing on religion or sexuality or notions […]
Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism by Michael Eric DysonRequirements: .PDF reader, 19 MbOverview: From rap music to preaching, from Toni Morrison to Leonard Jeffries, from Michael Jackson to Michael Jordan, “Reflecting Black” explores the varied and complex dimensions of African-American culture. Through personal reflection, expository journalism, scholarly investigation, and even a sermon, Michael Eric Dyson […]